Rich’s “Top 20 Best Sabbatical Books I’ve Ever Reread”

This was my short list of sabbatical books to reread. As far as I'm concerned, you won't do any better than this if you're looking for something to take to the woods or the lake this summer in each category.

The Brain

1. Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Grain Tells Us About Our Kids (Strauch)

2. What Makes You Tick: The Brain in Plain English (Czerner)

3. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training (Jensen)

4. Secrets of the Teenage Brain (Feinstein)

5. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Edwards)

 

Marketing & Systems Theory

1. The Experience Economy: Work is Theater & Every Business a Stage (Pine & Gilmore)

2. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference (Gladwell)

3. All Business is Show Business (McKain)

4. Good to Great (Collins)

5. The Fifth Discipline: Strategies and Tools for Building Learning Organizations (Senge)

 

Church, Faith & Future

1. The Divine Conspiracy  (Willard)

2. Culture Shift (Lewis & Cordeiro)

3. Faith Entrepreneurs (Caldwell & Kallestad)

4. Transforming Children Into Spiritual Champions (Barna)

5. What Would I Believe If I Didn’t Believe Anything (Groff)

 

Just for Fun

1. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Gladwell)

2. The Pentagon’s New Map  (Barnett)

3. Why People Believe Weird Things (Shermer)

4. Prodigal Sons & Material Girls (Dungan)

5. At Home in Mitford (Karon) (A friend and I are forming a movie company to produce this whole series)

 

 

 

 

Comments

[Richard]

I would add JRR Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings".

Just to remind us that in the business of life - there is a whole world of wonder that is even more real (and important) than the next report to produce, product to sell or even sermon to prepare.

Richard Stals
Perth, Western Australia